Word Origin & History

cure c.1300, from L. cura "care, concern, trouble," from PIE base *kois- "be concerned." In reference to fish, pork, etc., first recorded 1743. Related: Curable (late 14c.). Cure-all in general sense is from 1870; as a name of various plants, it is attested from 1793.

Example Sentences for cureless

She sprang to her feet, her bright fancies fallen into cureless ruin.

In at least this age and country it exists as the atrophy of a cureless decline.

Memory pictured her pale and drooping, nay gradually sinking under the cureless malady which brought her to her grave at last.

A slow and cureless disease preyed on her delicate frame, and she expired in the second year of Tasso's imprisonment.

Though my many faults defaced me, Could no other arm be found, Than the one which once embraced me, To inflict a cureless wound?

It seems an earnest of "the staggers and the cureless lapse of youth" with which the King has threatened him.

He was right (if he said it) that he was la misre humaine, cureless misery—unless perhaps by the gallows.

There are no marks of cureless malady— A faint suggestion of overwatchfulness, That oft points out the student—nothing more.

For this leaving of life, if we examine it, is merely for our own interest, because we cannot bear our own cureless pain.

Rend Subhadra's stony bosom with a mother's cureless grief, Let her follow Abhimanyu and in death obtain relief!